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Fjord) where the depth was 12—35 metres (numerous [35] 

 specim.), off Mackenzie Bugt where the depth was 100 metres 

 (3 specim.), at the inner part of Myskoxe Fjord (Franz Joseph 

 Fjord) where the depth was 100 metres (2 specim.), at the 

 outer part of Myskoxe Fjord where the depth was 200 metres 

 (1 specim.), at the mouth of Franz Joseph Fjord where the 

 depth was 200 — 300 metres (4 specim.), off Franz Joseph Fjord 

 (between Bontekoe Ö and Mackenzie Bugt), where the depth 

 was 250 metres (2 specim.), and SE. of Hvalros Ö where the 

 depth was 80 — 100 metres (1 specim.). 



In all no less than 53 specimens were caught in 1899 — 1900, 

 40 — 178 mm. long. 



Ly codes eiidipleurosticUis Jensen. 



1880. Lycodes esmarliii CoUett, The Norwegian North- Atlantic Expedition, 



Fishes, p. 84 (partim), PL П, fig. 19— 21. 

 1901. L. Vahlii forma pallida Smitt, Bih. K. Sv. Vet.-Alcad. Handl. Bd. 27, 



Afd. IV, No. 4, p. 24 (partim), No. 13. 

 1901. L. Vahlii typica Smitt, ibid., p. 26 (partim). No. 40— 42. 

 1901. L. eudipleiirostictîis Jensen, Vidensk. Medd. Naturh. Foren. Kbhvn. 



p. 206. 



The body zoa reif orm. Of the total length the 

 height above anus amounts to 8.1 — 13. 6 ^/o, the 

 length of the head to 19.8 — 24.3^^/0, the distance 

 between the end of the snout and anus to 36.7- 

 41.4 °/o. Hind margin of pectoral fins incised. 

 Colour brown with yellowish-white nuchal spot and 

 5 — 8 narrow yellowish-white transverse bands. 

 Scales cover the body right to the front of the 

 dorsal fin as well as the vertical fins almost to 

 their margins. Lateral line double, just behind the 

 base of the pectoral fins devided in a mediolateral 

 and a ventral branch, both distinct. App. pyloricæ 2. 

 Size up to 325 mm. 



R. br. 6; D. 100—103; A. 88 — 92; P. 20 — 22 (23). 



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